This is how you play the Inverted Paradiddle Groove

[@MickSoutherland]

Hey! I’ve been practicing my rudiments with both my hands and feet for a while, but I was kind of stuck, not sure where to go next. Then you said, “Move the right hand to the right foot,” and it just opened up a whole new world for me! Since I’ve been working on them so much, it came pretty naturally, and now I’ve got all these new grooves happening. It works with everything, 6 stroke, diddle-diddle, all the variations of diddle, awesome. It feels like something I should have realized sooner, but I just never thought of it that way. Thank you so much for that!

[@DrumTipTuesday]

I’m so glad you found something here if value

[@TimFrye-c4w]

Gabriel you're a beast man!!! Great instructor bro. I follow you religiously. Ur heaven sent bro.

[@DrumTipTuesday]

Thank you so much! I haven't posted in a while because I'm doing some work on the house and it's taking a lot of time and energy but I will be back soon.

[@TigerKoehn]

No Drumline experience as a youth, but I purposely went out of my way, after I already have a career as a professional drummer, to work at drumline hand techniques, Moeller and Gladstone hand techniques as well as, studying Jeff Queen's lessons and deep dive into Potriats in Rhythms and on and on. There is a whole host of other material and it has changed my playing tremendously

[@DrumTipTuesday]

Good on you man for continuing to grow. I marched back in the day when Jeff Queen and Nick Angelis were competing in individuals.

[@markinsacramento]

This is really cool. I'm 66, and I've been playing for about 1 month. I was looking for words I could use to create patterns with, and heres my first. Pumpernickel! Which to me would look like RRLR LLRL. Which i thought was an inverted paradiddle. It works for me

[@DrumTipTuesday]

Whatever gets the job done. I’m glad you found something here that you like

[@warrenlastewka8035]

My drum line was a bag pipe band. Universities in canada Are different to America when it comes to drum lines. Thank you for the lesson and helping out the drumming community.

[@DrumTipTuesday]

I love the bag pipe drumming tradition. I was furtunate enough to be on a contract one time with a bass player from Scotland who had with him some video footage of the most recent "Tattoo" or drumline competition in Scotland it was fantastic. To this day I still use that notation for writing out snare drum parts.

[@pdxdrumtech]

Well done, Gabriel. This was a very detailed and enlightening lesson/demo. I especially like that you emphasized the 'skill set' aspect of this. Hopefully, that concept resonates with your viewers in the context of skill sets being tools of the trade in terms of being able to slip them in when appropriate. We all should be as subtle and versatile as a musician as we can. I feel your videos help this technique and thought process. Love it!

[@DrumTipTuesday]

Thank you for the compliment! I appreciate the feed back, and I'm glad you found something on this channel that you like.

[@yalestar]

Great groove; I can't wait to try it out. And I really love your channel. I was never in drumline or anything in high school or college, but I really wish I had done it. It looks fun as hell and a great way to build up your hands.

[@DrumTipTuesday]

Thank you for contributing your comment to our community. I appreciate it and I’m glad you found something you like

[@IBY2K]

My Man! What a lesson. If I understood correctly, you are emulating/emphasizing the bass line with the kick drum, which happens to be 1, 1a, (2) en, which is what the right hand is doing in an inverted paradiddle. Did I get that correctly? Because I don't see the inverted paradiddle between the hands which is the usual way people present an inverted paradiddle groove. Hope I got it right!

[@DrumTipTuesday]

You got it! There are actually several ways to invert a paradiddle, the one I put in this video may not be the first one you think of which could be why you didn’t see it immediately in the transcription.

[@IBY2K]

@drumtiptuesday oh man! Inverted paradiddle between kick and left hand! All while lining up with the bass line. Damn!! Great one brother.

[@Thess2310]

Thanks a Lot for the tip !!!!

[@DrumTipTuesday]

Thank you for commenting! I'll keep making them.

[@MarkStephen-q5p]

i have zero drum line back round.

[@DrumTipTuesday]

No problem, none required here lol

[@danmijs8383]

this groove sounds like MR.BIG "Take Cover" tune. 🙃😃

[@DrumTipTuesday]

I just watched the first part of that video and that might even be the pattern he’s using. Thanks for the reference

[@rayfabbri3759]

First run through I’m not getting it. How the up down tap part works in I don’t know. 50-60 more replays it might sink in. Thanks for the challenge.

[@DrumTipTuesday]

You'll figure it out. If not, for the time being, just play the pattern on the kit and enjoy it at face value. I learned the ups and downs that way much later in life. I was already doing it, I just didn't know what each stroke was called. So just getting the pattern together however, as long as in the end it sounds right is what's important. Thank you for sharing your comment

[@rayfabbri3759]

I got it.

[@DrumTipTuesday]

Excellent! ...and now you will always have that tool to clean up anything that gives you a problem. @@rayfabbri3759

[@rayfabbri3759]

Sorry to see you go. Just recently found the channel. Like the step 1 2 3 method. I’m going back and finding and saving all the old episodes I can find. Thanks.

[@theicnot]

Paradiddle "Immigrant Song"

[@rayfabbri3759]

I know this is good for me but it hurts my head.

[@DrumTipTuesday]

But it’s like a post workout good hurt